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Comment on CMV: Once civilization is fully developed, life will be unfulfilling and boring. Humanity is also doomed to go extinct. These two reasons make life not worth living. in ~talk
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Comment on CMV: Once civilization is fully developed, life will be unfulfilling and boring. Humanity is also doomed to go extinct. These two reasons make life not worth living. in ~talk
Cse7en (edited )LinkYou're making assumptions about the future of humanity on a timescale that by it's very nature guarantees we cannot possibly fathom the situation they'll find themselves in. We just literally...You're making assumptions about the future of humanity on a timescale that by it's very nature guarantees we cannot possibly fathom the situation they'll find themselves in.
We just literally cannot possibly know what context life will find itself in that far into the future. Your premise is as flawed as a hunter-gatherer 15,000 years ago telling the others that because the pack of animals they're following is dwindling and will run out eventually the whole world will die and therefore, life isn't worth living... that human couldn't possibly have the foresight or context to fathom humanity creating so many forms of transportation allowing them to travel to new areas previously impossible to reach, discovering so many new food sources, the development of agriculture and livestock farming to develop those new sources leading to creation of permanent settlements 2000-3000 years after our hypothetical hunter gatherer lived, the creation of cities around 4000 years after that etc.
We are just as poorly informed about what the future holds 15,000 years in the future. We simply cannot fathom what we don't know about it, If there's three things that humanity has proven over and over, it's:
- We're absolutely shit at predicting what the future holds.
- We're constantly discovering what we previously assumed were unassailable truths were totally misinformed
- We're excellent at adapting and progressing beyond what we assumed were impossible limits due to our own limited knowledge.
In our very recent past scientists believed it was impossible to go much faster than 35 mph because we couldn't possibly breathe at such mind boggling speeds! Up until 1947 it was considered by many to be impossible to travel faster than the speed of sound (767mph), 20 years after that humanity traveled to the moon through the vacuum of space at 27,000+ mph!
It requires an astonishing amount of hubris to assume humanity now knows anything about what the next 100 years holds for us let alone the next thousand or million years. Don't base your current life on conjecture that by the nature of the timescale you're talking guarantees we couldn't possibly be better informed about it than the hunter gatherer from 15,000 years in our past giving up on humanity because the pack of animals they were following ran out.
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Comment on Are phones really listening to us at all times? in ~tech
Cse7en Link ParentI'd just like to point out they DO sell it, they make a huge deal about the Tensor "AI" chip, a major selling point of pixel phones which they state can do real time language translation on the...Google almost certainly has access to better ways to process audio than I do, but if they had a good way to process audio offline, that would be a feature that they sell, and not a way to spy on people. Processing audio in a natural way is difficult, which is why it is done in the cloud and not in a local device.
I'd just like to point out they DO sell it, they make a huge deal about the Tensor "AI" chip, a major selling point of pixel phones which they state can do real time language translation on the chip. "...the many ML capabilities it enables, such as advanced speech recognition,[1] real-time language translation, the ability to unblur photographs,[2] and HDR-like frame-by-frame processing for videos" all of those features are processed locally with the Tensor processor.
I don't have an opinion on whether or not they listen in, it's clear they just don't need to, it would be really bad PR and we're leaking so much data every day it'd be almost pointless. However, I did think the claimed capabilities of the Tensor chip are relevant to this discussion and should change our understanding of how the process would have to work.
Allowing efficient language processing without sending large amounts of raw audio data back to an external server by doing all that processing locally, radically changes how we should be investigating the possibility. The "well it's not sending hundreds of mb of data back and forth so clearly it's not doing any language processing." Argument isn't as valid as it was 2 years ago and that's an important consideration.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Cse7en LinkI've been hoping this question would pop up again since I got a Tildes account! I have been playing Cassette Beasts on Xbox game pass and have been absolutely loving it, at first glance it looks...I've been hoping this question would pop up again since I got a Tildes account! I have been playing Cassette Beasts on Xbox game pass and have been absolutely loving it, at first glance it looks like it's just a Pokemon clone but it's got an abundance of unique charm, a unique and engaging story about a bunch of people lost in a different dimension and working together to survive and flourish in a hostile place and helping them do that while you're looking for a way home, excellent monster design and evolution progression, a well fleshed out type system, a fusion system where you can basically use a limit break to combine any two other monsters you and your other party member fuse into a unique much stronger monster (kinda like dynamaxing but way cooler). I was just gonna play it to scratch a pokemon itch but it honestly is much better than a pokemon clone it does scratch that itch but, it does so so much better than I expected and has a lot to love about it's own unique world and gameplay. I've been excited to find collect and evolve every new monster. It surprised me how good it is and I hope it has a chance to grow into its own IP because I think it deserves its own place.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Cse7en (edited )Link ParentI specifically avoided all promo for it because I wanted to be surprised and enjoy it organically as cyberpunk is my favorite genre and I had been dreaming about a modern open world cyberpunk game...I specifically avoided all promo for it because I wanted to be surprised and enjoy it organically as cyberpunk is my favorite genre and I had been dreaming about a modern open world cyberpunk game since I first played
NecromancerNeuromancer on C64. I bought it day one and had been enjoying it but, then started to see all the negative reaction to it and was surprised until I looked at what CDPR claimed tue game was going to be. It didn't really affect my enjoyment of it but, when they started offering refunds I took the opportunity on principle. No studio deserves to be rewarded for lying and failing to ship what they claimed, they would didn't deserve the $60 price for what they delivered vs what they promised. However I do believe in supporting a game when the developer & publisher work to address their mistakes (Battlefront 2 & No Mans Sky are decent examples of serious fuckups that became much better after the backlash) so I bought a disc copy after a couple of the major updates for less than $10 with a cool Valentino's steelbook case and have been really happy with it since. I am of the opinion that CDPR got a necessary wake up call and is doing what it should to fix their mistake and I'm really happy they are! -
Comment on What's good to cook on a propane grill? in ~food
Cse7en LinkSalmon & steak are my go tos but, meatloaf &/or Kufta is so good on the grill I basically don't cook either unless they're grilled. Important tip: for the meatloaf or Kufta you'll wanna wrap it in...Salmon & steak are my go tos but, meatloaf &/or Kufta is so good on the grill I basically don't cook either unless they're grilled.
Important tip: for the meatloaf or Kufta you'll wanna wrap it in foil until it's cooked through, then you'll open the foil up so the top and 4 sides are exposed to let the excess moisture escape & let the meat crisp up a little on the outside for the ideal texture. The flavor and texture is so much better than in the oven.
It's my pleasure to be of some help. I'd wrestled with similar concerns but as I grew older I started to realize despite all we know as a species, it's basically nothing. We have so much to learn and so much more room to grow it's amazing, these days I focus on keeping myself humble, learning new skills, new perspectives and being the person anyone can depend on. It's another aspect of what's helped me develop a much more positive outlook.